VIRENDRA SEHWAG'S CRICKET PROFILE

Full Name; Sehwag, Virender
Date of birth: 20/10/1978
Country : India
Role : Batsman
Batting style : R
Bowling style : Unknown
Career summary
- Test debut v South Africa at Bloemfontein - November 2001
- ODI debut India v Pakistan at Chandigarh - April 1999
- Virender Sehwag is India's opening batsman, and also a useful spin bowler.
- He made his ODI debut against Pakistan at Chandigarh in April 1999.
- Sehwag scored a 100 on his international test debut against South Africa at Bloemfontein in 2001/02, he then went from strength to strength scoring 80 & 100 in his first two games on tour in England.
- On March 29, 2004 he became the first ever Indian batsman and only the 4th Asian batsman to score 300 runs in a Test innings, playing against Pakistan at Multan, even more impressive he reached the milestone with a six. He went on to get a total of 309.
- When partnering with Rahul Dravid versus Pakistan in the 2005-06 season, both were involved in the highest opening partnership for a test match played away from home (India) scoring 410 runs. They were only four runs short of making the highest opening partnership in test cricket.

* Only Indian batsman to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket. He is the third batsman in the history of Test cricket, to score two triple centuries (first two being Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara).

* Fastest century in ODI cricket by an Indian ,100 runs off 60 balls against New Zealand in 2009.

* Second fastest ODI 50 by an Indian - a record, he shares with Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh - when he took 22 balls against Kenya in 2001.

* Five double centuries - the first three of which came against Pakistan. Greg Chappell is the only other player to have scored multiple double centuries against Pakistan.

* Highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. He first achieved this when he scored 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004, and bettered his previous record in March 2008 at Chennai against South Africa by scoring 319.

* Fastest triple century: His second triple century scored at Chennai on 27-28 March 2008 against South Africa was the fastest in terms of balls faced by any batsman (off 278 balls).

* Consecutive 150+ scores in Test cricket: He holds the record for consecutive test hundreds converted to scores of 150+, at 11.

* Two consecutive double century partnerships in a Test innings. He achieved this record, for the first two wickets in Chennai on 27-28 March 2008 (with Wasim Jaffer and Rahul Dravid respectively). This was the first time in Test history that the first two wickets in an innings have resulted in double-century stands.

* He is the first person in the history of test cricket to hit two triple century and take five wickets in test match.

Test Matches
Batting
Career Span: 2001 - 2008
Matches: 66
Innings: 114
Not outs: 4
Runs: 5617
Highest Score: 319
Average: 49.27
50s: 18
100s: 10
Ducks: 10
Pairs: 0
Catches: 50
Stumping: 0
Bowling
Innings bowled: 92
Overs: 386.7
Maidens: 58
Runs conceded: 1149
Wickets: 29
5 Wicket Innings: 1
10 Wicket matches: 0
Average: 39.62
Economy Rate: 2.97
Best bowling in Innings: 5/104

ODI Matches
Batting
Career Span: 1999 - 2009
Innings: 194
Not outs: 7
Runs: 6180
Highest Score: 130
Strike-rate: 101.18
Average: 31.86
50s: 33
100s: 9
Ducks: 11
Catches: 77
Stumping: 0
Bowling
Innings bowled: 127
Overs: 666.2
Maidens: 12
Runs conceded: 3520
Wickets: 86
4 Wicket Innings: 0
Average: 40.93
Economy Rate: 5.28
Best bowling in Innings: 3/59

Twenty20 Matches
Batting
Career Span: 2007 - 2008
Innings: 7
Not outs:
Runs: 138
Highest Score: 68
Average: 19.71
50s: 1
100s: 0
Ducks: 1
Catches: 0
Stumping: 0
Bowling
Innings bowled: 1
Overs:
Maidens: 0
Runs conceded: 20
Wickets: 0
4 Wicket Innings: 0
Average: 0
Economy Rate:
Best bowling in Innings: